NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, January 9, 1903, Cambria County, PA
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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Friday, January 9, 1903
OFFICIALS SWORN IN
Court convened on Monday with Judge O'Connor on the bench for the
purpose of swearing in the new county officials elected at the late
election. The new officials are:
County Treasurer - Harry B. Heffley. Commissioners - Benjamin Jones,
W. S. Stutzman and T. M. Sheehan; Auditors - John Gittings, L. W.
Kaufmann and F. E. Farabaugh.
At noon Deputy Prothonotary Kinkead administered the oath of office
to each of them in open court.
County Treasurer Heffley filed two bonds as follows: One of $10,000
to cover the county moneys due to the state, and the other for $80,000
as assurance to the county. On the bond to the state, which was filed
in the office of the Register and Recorder, the sureties are H. B.
Heffley, Charles C. When, W. G. Heffley and Louis A. Geis. On the
county bond appear the names of John Bergman, J. B. Denny, P. S.
Fisher, C. J. Mayer, Joe T. Kelly, John H. Waters, John Emmerling, John
Dowling, Conrad Hahn, Patrick Boyle, John Stenger and Charles B. Schry.
Immediately after being sworn in the County Commissioners organized
by electing Benjamin Jones, president of the board; F. B. Jones was
chosen for chief clerk and John Lehman and James McClune were chosen
for transcribing clerks.
The county auditors after being sworn in commenced the work of
auditing the receipts and expenditures of the county for the year 1902.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Six murders and seven suicides occurred in Cambria county in the year
1902.
Girls can whiten their hands by soaking them in dish water three
times a day.
Mr. Henry E. Fenlon, of Bellefonte, Pa., was a visitor to Ebensburg
this week.
Miss Della Bearer, of Carroll township, visited friends in Ebensburg
on Thursday.
Eight foreigners were naturalized at the afternoon session of court
held here on Monday.
Mr. Isaac N. Wissinger, of Blacklick township, was a visitor to
Ebensburg on Thursday.
Editor Milton Spencer, of the Barnesboro SENTINEL, spent a few hours
in town on Tuesday.
Fred D. Barker, Esq., of this place, went to Philadelphia on
Wednesday evening on a business visit.
Mr. C. M. Parrish, of Bellefonte, Pa., spent Sunday with his parents,
Squire J. D. Parrish and wife, of this place.
Mr. J. L. Elder, of this place, returned home from Pittsburg on
Tuesday where he spent several days transacting business.
Mr. John C. Gates and daughter, Miss Alberta, were in Pittsburg on
Tuesday, the latter being on her way to school at Oberlin, O.
The court on Monday appointed Charles Stiffler Constable of Blacklick
to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Merton Edwards.
Mr. Edward W. Humphreys, of this place, has sold his property on
Julian street in the West ward to Mr. Alex J. Evans for $2,200.
Mrs. J. R. Manion, of this place, accompanied by her sister, Miss
Baker, of Susquehanna township, spent a few days in Tyrone this week.
Mr. Webster Griffith, of this place, on Christmas Day surprised his
foreman, Mr. Elisha Mahon, by presenting him with a fine driving mare.
Miss Annie C. Oatman, a native of Ebensburg, daughter of the late
George W. Oatman, Esq., has been appointed assistant to Postmaster D.
W. Coulter at Conemaugh.
A child of Mike Senig, who resides near Lancashire mine No. 6 at
Barnesboro, was badly scaled about the arms and face Friday afternoon
by falling into a pan of boiling water.
William Isenberg of Ebensburg, driver of Herman Apel's teams, hauled
85 bushels of coal from Nantyglo to Ebensburg one day this week.
Pretty good two-horse load.
At court on Monday the wholesale liquor license of James McCann at
Lilly, was transferred to I. E. Carman. The retail license granted to
Edward Rhue for the Hastings Hotel at Hastings was transferred to T. F.
Maher.
Prof. Morris D. High, Johnstown, has sold a copy of the New England
Primer, printed at Boston in 1727 to Dodd, Meade & Co., the publishers
of Philadelphia for $2,500. Prof. High paid 12 cents for it at an
auction sale.
Mr. John F. Tibbott left on Tuesday for a visit to his brother in
Georgia and with the hope of benefiting his health by a brief sojourn
in a milder climate. During his absence his duties as borough
collector and treasurer will be attended to by Mr. G. Calvin Port.
The B. P. Anderson homestead in Allegheny township, between Loretto
and Cresson has been sold to a party from Pittsburg, who, we
understand, will utilize it for a summer residence, $8,000 being the
consideration. Rev. Father Gallitzin at one time owned the property.
A meeting of delegates from the different Catholic societies of
Cambria county was held in the Y. M. I. Hall in Johnstown on Tuesday of
last week. Six Catholic societies were represented, they being present
from almost all the towns of the county. An organization was effected
and two sessions were held.
Frank W. Pearman, a well-known P. R. R. conductor living at
Conemaugh, suffered a fracture of the left leg at the ankle Monday
evening by falling from a car when his train parted near South Fork.
He was taken to the Cambria hospital at Johnstown. Pearman is aged
thirty-eight years and is married. His escape from being killed is said
to have been miraculous.
Professor John McCormick, of Wilmore, has in contemplation the
writing of a history of Cambria county. It is, needless to say, that
it is a work that should have been undertaken by some competent person
long ago and that in consequence of the delay much valuable material
and information has been lost. We hope Professor McCormick may see his
way clear to the undertaking.
One hundred business and professional men of Johnstown attended a
banquet at the Crystal Cafe on Monday night, given by Attorneys Robert
S. and Thomas Edwin Murphy, in honor of their guests, Colonel J. A.
Johnston, U. S. A., of Washington, D. C., and Captain Timmerlin of the
Military Academy.
Among the appointments sent by President Roosevelt to the Senate on
Monday was that of Hugh Pitcairn of Pennsylvania, Consul at Hamburg, to
be Consul-General at the same place. Mr. Pitcairn is one of the owners
of the Altoona TRIBUNE, a brother of Robert Pitcairn, Assistant to the
president of the P. R. R. and has been Consul at Hamburg since early in
President McKinley's first administration. He was appointed from
Altoona though his home is in Harrisburg.